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BOOK I	A
DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale	B
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn	C
Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star	D
Sat gray hair'd Saturn quiet as a stone	E
Still as the silence round about his lair	F
Forest on forest hung above his head	G
Like cloud on cloud No stir of air was there	F
Not so much life as on a summer's day	H
Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass	I
But where the dead leaf fell there did it rest	J
A stream went voiceless by still deadened more	K
By reason of his fallen divinity	L
Spreading a shade the Naiad 'mid her reeds	M
Press'd her cold finger closer to her lips	N
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Along the margin sand large foot marks went	O
No further than to where his feet had stray'd	P
And slept there since Upon the sodden ground	Q
His old right hand lay nerveless listless dead	G
Unsceptred and his realmless eyes were closed	R
While his bow'd head seem'd list'ning to the Earth	S
His ancient mother for some comfort yet	T
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It seem'd no force could wake him from his place	U
But there came one who with a kindred hand	V
Touch'd his wide shoulders after bending low	W
With reverence though to one who knew it not	X
She was a Goddess of the infant world	Y
By her in stature the tall Amazon	Z
Had stood a pigmy's height she would have ta'en	A2
Achilles by the hair and bent his neck	B2
Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel	C2
Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx	D2
Pedestal'd haply in a palace court	E2
When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore	K
But oh how unlike marble was that face	U
How beautiful if sorrow had not made	P
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self	F2
There was a listening fear in her regard	G2
As if calamity had but begun	H2
As if the vanward clouds of evil days	I2
Had spent their malice and the sullen rear	J2
Was with its stored thunder labouring up	K2
One hand she press'd upon that aching spot	X
Where beats the human heart as if just there	F
Though an immortal she felt cruel pain	L2
The other upon Saturn's bended neck	B2
She laid and to the level of his ear	M2
Leaning with parted lips some words she spake	N2
In solemn tenor and deep organ tone	E
Some mourning words which in our feeble tongue	O2
Would come in these like accents O how frail	B
To that large utterance of the early Gods	P2
Saturn look up though wherefore poor old King	Q2
I have no comfort for thee no not one	H2
I cannot say 'O wherefore sleepest thou '	-
For heaven is parted from thee and the earth	S
Knows thee not thus afflicted for a God	R2
And ocean too with all its solemn noise	S2
Has from thy sceptre pass'd and all the air	F
Is emptied of thine hoary majesty	L
Thy thunder conscious of the new command	V
Rumbles reluctant o'er our fallen house	T2
And thy sharp lightning in unpractised hands	U2
Scorches and burns our once serene domain	L2
O aching time O moments big as years	V2
All as ye pass swell out the monstrous truth	W2
And press it so upon our weary griefs	V2
That unbelief has not a space to breathe	X2
Saturn sleep on O thoughtless why did I	A
Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude	Y2
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes	V2
Saturn sleep on while at thy feet I weep	Z2
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As when upon a tranced summer night	A3
Those green rob'd senators of mighty woods	V2
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars	V2
Dream and so dream all night without a stir	B3
Save from one gradual solitary gust	C3
Which comes upon the silence and dies off	D3
As if the ebbing air had but one wave	E3
So came these words and went the while in tears	V2
She touch'd her fair large forehead to the ground	Q
Just where her fallen hair might be outspread	Q
A soft and silken mat for Saturn's feet	Q
One moon with alteration slow had shed	Q
Her silver seasons four upon the night	Q
And still these two were postured motionless	V2
Like natural sculpture in cathedral cavern	F3
The frozen God still couchant on the earth	S
And the sad Goddess weeping at his feet	Q
Until at length old Saturn lifted up	K2
His faded eyes and saw his kingdom gone	G3
And all the gloom and sorrow ofthe place	V2
And that fair kneeling Goddess and then spake	N2
As with a palsied tongue and while his beard	Q
Shook horrid with such aspen malady	Q
O tender spouse of gold Hyperion	H2
Thea I feel thee ere I see thy face	V2
Look up and let me see our doom in it	Q
Look up and tell me if this feeble shape	H3
Is Saturn's tell me if thou hear'st the voice	V2
Of Saturn tell me if this wrinkling brow	I3
Naked and bare of its great diadem	J3
Peers like the front of Saturn Who had power	B3
To make me desolate Whence came the strength	K3
How was it nurtur'd to such bursting forth	L3
While Fate seem'd strangled in my nervous grasp	M3
But it is so and I am smother'd up	K2
And buried from all godlike exercise	V2
Of influence benign on planets pale	B
Of admonitions to the winds and seas	V2
Of peaceful sway above man's harvesting	Q2
And all those acts which Deity supreme	N3
Doth ease its heart of love in I am gone	G3
Away from my own bosom I have left	Q
My strong identity my real self	F2
Somewhere between the throne and where I sit	Q
Here on this spot of earth Search Thea search	O3
Open thine eyes eterne and sphere them round	Q
Upon all space space starr'd and lorn of light	Q
Space region'd with life air and barren void	Q
Spaces of fire and all the yawn of hell	P3
Search Thea search and tell me if thou seest	Q
A certain shape or shadow making way	H
With wings or chariot fierce to repossess	V2
A heaven he lost erewhile it must it must	Q
Be of ripe progress Saturn must be King	Q2
Yes there must be a golden victory	Q
There must be Gods thrown down and trumpets blown	E
Of triumph calm and hymns of festival	Q3
Upon the gold clouds metropolitan	H2
Voices of soft proclaim and silver stir	B3
Of strings in hollow shells and there shall be	Q
Beautiful things made new for the surprise	V2
Of the sky children I will give command	Q
Thea Thea Thea where is Saturn	F3
This passion lifted him upon his feet	Q
And made his hands to struggle in the air	F
His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat	Q
His eyes to fever out his voice to cease	V2
He stood and heard not Thea's sobbing deep	Z2
A little time and then again he snatch'd	Q
Utterance thus But cannot I create	Q
Cannot I form Cannot I fashion forth	L3
Another world another universe	V2
To overbear and crumble this to nought	Q
Where is another Chaos Where That word	Q
Found way unto Olympus and made quake	N2
The rebel three Thea was startled up	K2
And in her bearing was a sort of hope	R3
As thus she quick voic'd spake yet full of awe	S3
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This cheers our fallen house come to our friends	V2
O Saturn come away and give them heart	Q
I know the covert for thence came I hither	B3
Thus brief then with beseeching eyes she went	Q
With backward footing through the shade a space	V2
He follow'd and she turn'd to lead the way	H
Through aged boughs that yielded like the mist	Q
Which eagles cleave upmounting from their nest	Q
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Meanwhile in other realms big tears were shed	Q
More sorrow like to this and such like woe	W
Too huge for mortal tongue or pen of scribe	T3
The Titans fierce self hid or prison bound	Q
Groan'd for the old allegiance once more	K
And listen'd in sharp pain for Saturn's voice	V2
But one of the whole mammoth brood still kept	Q
His sov'reigny and rule and majesy	V2
Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fire	B3
Still sat still snuff'd the incense teeming up	K2
From man to the sun's God yet unsecure	B3
For as among us mortals omens drear	B3
Fright and perplex so also shuddered he	Q
Not at dog's howl or gloom bird's hated screech	U3
Or the familiar visiting of one	H2
Upon the first toll of his passing bell	P3
Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp	V3
But horrors portion'd to a giant nerve	W3
Oft made Hyperion ache His palace bright	Q
Bastion'd with pyramids of glowing gold	Q
And touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks	V2
Glar'd a blood red through all its thousand courts	V2
Arches and domes and fiery galleries	V2
And all its curtains of Aurorian clouds	V2
Flush'd angerly while sometimes eagles' wings	V2
Unseen before by Gods or wondering men	A2
Darken'd the place and neighing steeds were heard	Q
Not heard before by Gods or wondering men	A2
Also when he would taste the spicy wre	B3

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